#24 Religious Studies and the Impossible with Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal

#24 Religious Studies and the Impossible with Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal

Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he chaired the Department of Religion for eight years and helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world.

He presently helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he served as Chair of Board from 2015 to 2020. Jeff is the author or co-author of twelve books. He specializes in the study of extreme religious states and the re-visioning of what he calls “a New Comparativism”.

He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of religions and the sciences for The University of Chicago Press, collectively entitled The Super Story.

Without further introduction, I give you Dr. Jeff Kripal.


Please visit his website, linked here.

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